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WELCOME TO ROBABOB39 HORROR DVD AND BLURAY REVIEWS AND NEWS. I REVIEW MAINLY HORROR,SCI-FI ACTION,AND SOME COMEDY FILMS. I WILL TRY TO REVIEW MOST NEW RELEASES,ALSO SOME OLDER RELEASES TOO,AND FILMS I HAVE REALLY ENJOYED OVER THE YEARS.I AlSO WANT TO SHOWCASE INDEPENDENT FILMS, FROM SMALLER INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION COMPANIES.

You know I'm ashamed to say, with this being a Hollywood blockbuster, massive amounts of money spent on it, and myself being slightly anti Hollywood, I enjoyed this movie.

A movie that was made to be purely enjoyable, and it was, also it has such a homage to so many other films, including sci fi, horror, anime, and obviously Vietnam war films of the seventies and eighties, at least referencing Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, shit even Taxi Driver, and Alien from the seventies get a nod of some kind. With anime nods to Akira, Spirited Away and also Pokemon, with the best reference is the spider scene when a Solider is impaled by a leg, going straight through his mouth, which is a reference to the scene of that woman impaled in Cannibal Holacaust.

With other references to other Kong movies, even the dodgy ones, has a scene that has been recreated, the octopus battle, Kong in chains, and the T Rex battle from King Kong 2005.

With the biggest influence of all is Apocalypse Now, down to the helicopters, the boat scene, the villagers, and of cause copious amounts of napalm, with the perfect seventies soundtrack even borrowing the same songs used in previous Vietnam war movies.

Honestly this movie is just pure joy, seeing copious amounts of soldiers being ripped apart, stamped on, eaten by various beasties, we actually have a more violent Jurrassic Park movie, with balls to show violence, even my teenage daughter was equally enthralled by the violence and shocked by it, with her shouting at the screen "rip his tongue out" with the final battle between Kong and some huge underground demon known as the Skull Crusher.

The other highlight and I'm warning you is spoiler, but then again you kind of expect it now, is the violent death of Samuel L Jackson, who has to die a gruesome death in every type of monster movie he has starred in. With his referencing Predator of all movies, with the burning torch egging on his adversary in Kong.

It does pain me to say that I enjoyed a Big Buget Hollywood Blockbuster, but with such great visual effects, a great seventies soundtrack and my favourite decade of music, to the Vietnam films I grew up with in the eighties, and a great cast of Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, Tom Hiddleson, Brie Larson and John C. Riley who is one of my favourite actors.

I really did enjoy this movie, and although is not pure horror the action set pieces, the violence, you even see blood, makes this the most violent PG13 movie I have ever see, all plaudits has to go to director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who has kickstarted off Warner Bros own Mosterverse with Godzilla 2 next and then a Kong, Godzilla movie, with a naughty post credit sequence hinting that, with a nod to Godzilla fighting other monster beasties, saying" this was once their earth" we have a lot of monster movies to look forward to in the next few years, and if they are all as good as this movie, for once I'm excited.

I came across this trailer on YouTube yesterday, and it is doing the rounds again on social media, a trailer first showing in 2015, that got everyone talking " is this for real" " this can not be a film can it?" As it turns out no, it is a trailer that is well made, but certainly is not going to be a film anytime soon.
A one joke trailer about a randy ghost intent on jerking men off, using handjobs, I'm surprised the tag line wasn't "Cumming soon".
This was obviously made by men with a running narrative that women cannot give a decent handjob, and having them do the deed is worse than death, instead you have a ghost who wants to jerk all men to death.
It is as awful as you'd expect it to be, but I still found myself chuckle a few times, it is rude, crude, insinuating, and in fairness harmless fun, a film if made I would actually probably watch, it certainly looks better than the recent Cabin Fever, Evil Dead 2013.

Tree is about to have a very bad day, again, and again and again.
College Grad Tree, a self centred bitch, who you take an instant dislike to, who is foul to everyone.
Treats everyone like dirt, then wonders why someone would want her dead. With a groundhog Day loop thing going on every time she is murdered she has to live through the same Monday the 18th, until she can find out her wants her dead, solve her own murder, and maybe become a better person in the mean time.The thing is I really wanted to hate this movie, but I couldn't, because of the performance from Jessica Rothe as Tree, in her first scream queen role, starring previously in La La Land, and Netflix's Parallels.
She is so likeable and believable in the role, although playing the bitch perfectly, she is deep down a damaged soul, still mourning the death of her mother, and her grief is her anger towards fellow People.
With some inventive kills, and no matter what Tree does, the day always ends in her death, with …

A film that strangely has been long forgotten, from 1980, and a film that has no mention about any remake or reboot. That is how this good film has been left on the shelf, compared to other slashers of that decade. Strange as it has possibly the best onscreen kills, with amazing practical effects from Gore master Tom Savini.

Plot summary;
A jilted soldier returns home from world war 2, hearing just before that his girlfriend has replaced him with another man. At the graduation ball of 1945, Rosemary is brutally slain alongside her new boyfriend. Shocking the town, that another ball has been postponed for 35 years. It is now 1980 the ball has been agreed once more, and the jilted soldier is not happy and decides to slay the party goers once more.

Formally known as the Prowler especially in the States, but changed to Rosemary's Killer in the UK. The film apart from the great Gore effects is quite average though, and probably why it has never been remade. With the jilted soldier in…

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Hi I'm Rob, I'm married with a daughter, and have a dog. Currently working part time. I also have my own Horror blog, Robabob39 Horror Film Reviews. I love writing,watching films,and giving my take on Horror films. I wear a beanie,I feel no need to wear a mask. What you see is what you get.